Now a new report on the German automaker’s updated electric vehicle timeline claims to give more insights into vehicle releases over the next 5-6 years, and it is just as disappointing as BMW’s official timeline.

Automobile Mag is out with a report inappropriately titled ‘BMW Doubles Down on EVs‘. The publication reports that BMW’s new EV initiative is called ‘Project i20’ and the gist of it is:

the long-rumoured BMW i5 or i6, an all-electric SUV, would arrive in late 2021

A new generation BMW i3 with more electric range scheduled for 2022

Another BMW i8 generation, which could actually be the one featuring an all-electric powertrain.

If this timeline turns out to be true, it would be extremely disappointing for EV enthusiasts and BMW would be left behind as competitors are actually planning a myriad of new electric entries in the market before the end of the decade, including Audi, Tesla and Mercedes – BMW’s main competitors.

Tesla has the Model 3 and Model Y confirmed to hit the market in the next few years.

The BMW i3 came out in 2013 and it was generally believed that more electric vehicles would follow, but we are now talking about what could very well end up being 8 years before the company releases a new all-electric model.